World Literature

World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. Often used in the past primarily for masterpieces of Western European literature, world literature today is increasingly seen in global context. ...more

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The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God (The Poppy War, #1-3)
Elsewhere
Nights of Plague
The Fires
Street Cultivation 2 (Street Cultivation, #2)
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1
Where There Was Fire
Around the World in 80 Books
The Blunder
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
Silencios olvidados (6 cuentos)
Out of Mesopotamia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Don Quixote
The Kite Runner
The Alchemist
Anna Karenina
The Odyssey
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Little Prince
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
The Trial
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,348 books — 2,192 voters

Los Sangurimas by José de la CuadraHuasipungo by Jorge IcazaLas cruces sobre el agua by Joaquín Gallegos LaraUn hombre muerto a puntapiés by Pablo PalacioNefando by Mónica Ojeda
Ecuadorian Literature
320 books — 50 voters

Louis Yako
The Problem The problem I have, my friends, is too complicated. It is not only that I no longer have a home, Or a roof over my head. It is that I no longer wish to have one. I confess to you; however, that Even if I wished to have a place to call home, My wish would be impossible to realize, Because I have been erased from everywhere. Yes, the mercenaries And those who worship the dollar notes, Under the names of religions and ideologies, Have erased me from history. They have revis ...more
Louis Yako, أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]

Tatiana Vedenska
In general, Mark was right; love was a business predestined for failure. I should have poked my head out of the sand in time and asked whether my husband loved me or not.
Tatiana Vedenska, Why

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